London: The Biography

Peter Ackroyd
London: The Biography



Издательство: Random House, Inc.
Жанр: Random House, Inc.

Качество: Хорошее
Страниц: 822
Формат: pdf, fb2, epub

Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is an organism with its own laws of growth and change, so this book is a biography rather than a history. Ackroyd reveals the dozens of ways in which the continuity of the city survives — in ward boundaries unchanged since the Middle Ages, in vocabulary and in various traditions — showing London as constantly changing, yet forever the same in essence.